Laser MP3-C40 User Manual

Built in digital voice recording function

User’s Guide

Model : MP3-C40

Contents :

1 Important Safety instructions
2 Function overview
3 Basic operation
4 About battery
5 Main menu
6 Music mode
7 Record mode
8 FM mode
9 System mode
10 E-book mode
11 USB disk function
12 Encrypt disk function
13 Upgrading
14 Troubleshooting
15 Specifications
16 Support Micro-SD card function

1. Important Safety Instructions

The manual contains important safety instructions and information of the device’s proper usage.
Make sure to read carefully and understand all the instructions to avoid accidents.

• Please do not expose the device in the extreme temperature (above 40), especially in
cars with window closed during summer.

• Please do not store it in the humid or dirty area.

• Please avoid the device falling and bumping strongly.

• High volume might cause hearing loss

• Please do not disassemble the device by yourself and do not wipe the surface of device

with alcohol or benzene or thinners.

• Please do not use the device in areas where electronic devices are prohibited.

• It is not suggested to use the device when you are driving or walking in the street.

2. Function overview

LCD Display
Integrated Micro-SD card, support capacity up to 8GB
Plays MP3, WMA music format file
Built in

Li-polymer

battery

Product Dimension: 83 x 28 x 12 MM

1: USB
2: USB Push the knob
3: Power ON/OFF
4: Earphone jack
5: Mode (Enter- short press,

Exit- long press)
6: Next
7: Volume
8: Play / Pause
9: Previous
10: Micro SD card slot
11: MIC
12: LCD Display
13: Strap hole

3. Basic Operation

Power on/Power Off:
Push the button to “ON” position to turn on the device.

Long press [ ](play/stop) button for 3 seconds to turn off the device, then push the Power
ON/OFF button to “ OFF” position.
Remarks: “ON /OFF” position is for you to power on/off completely the battery

Power off:

- In music mode: press [ ] (play/stop) button for one second, the music will stop, long
press [ ] (play/stop) button for three seconds, the player will be turned off.

- In other modes: long press [ ] (play/stop) button for three seconds, the player will be
turned off.

- When battery power is low, system will automatically power off.

Adjusting volume：
Adjusting the volume in music mode, and voice mode, press [ ] button will enter to volume
adjustment interface. Pressing [ ] button or [ ] button will increase/decrease the volume one
step. Long press [ ] button or [ ] button will increase/decrease continuously.

4. About Battery

- The player adopts a built-in Li-polymer.

- If battery power is low, the screen will display “low power”, then will automatically power
off.

- Recharge your battery by connecting to PC via USB.

- The screen displays battery icon and impulse when recharging battery. The icon will
indicate full when completely recharged.

- The battery will be full when charged continuously for 4 hours (initial charges will need
10hrs).

- The running time of battery depends on volume level, playing files format, button
operation, etc.

- The user can set [power off setting] to save power.

5. Main menu

Press [ ] button to enter into subsidiary menu: press [ ] button or [ ] button to select. Save
setting: hold [ ] button to save and exit from menu.

- Music mode: playing music（for more details, refers to “playing music”）

- Record mode: recording voice（for more details, refers to “recording voice”）

- System mode: edit system（for more details, refers to following “system setting”）

6. Music mode

- Play/Stop Play: In music mode, connect the earphone to the player, then press PLAY/STOP
[ ] button to play or stop.

- Select music: Pressing [ ]button briefly will move to the next songs. Pressing [ ] button
briefly will move to the previous songs.

- When playing a song, pressing [ ] button will enter sub-menu. press [ ] button or [ ]
button to select the setting, then press [ ] button to confirm selection: Repeat, Equalizer ,
Replay. Replay times. Replay gap, Exit

- Repeat mode: press [ ] button and [ ] button to select repeat mode. Normal; Repeat
One; Folder; Repeat Folder; Repeat All; random; intro.

- Equalizer mode: JAZZ, CLASSIC, ROCK, POP, NORMAL,SOFT, DBB

- Tempo rate: press [ ] button and [ ] button to select tempo rate. Moving to positive
direction will fast tempo rate and moving to negative direction will slow tempo rate. The
digit “0” means normal tempo rate.

- Replay : A-B repeat, when “A” in the icon blinks, swing [ ] to confirm start point,
swing [ ] as “B” point . The player will replay from A to B according to the setting in the
replay times.

- Replay times: In music play menu, press [ ] button or [ ] button to select replay time.
Then press [ ] button to confirm. Set how many times the A-B point replay Maximum is
10 times (1-10).

- Replay gap, set replay time gap between every replay.

- Lyric display: User can download lyrics from website and save them in the player with the
same name of music.

Notice: The player displays lyric name as the same as the MP3 file name. For example, music file name
is “song.mp3” and LRC file name must be “song.lrc”, they should also be in the same folder.

- To play the song on Micro SD card:

o Main Menu---- press M to Music Sub-Menu,---- press M ( do not play any song),

then choose Card Folder

o When playing songs on C40 ( local folder), keep pressing

[ ]

until the songs

stored on Micro SD card come up

7. Record mode

In player main menu, press [ ] button to confirm selecting record mode,
Press the front

[ ]

Button to start/stop recording. Press M button to save and exit.

Notice:

- For fine recording, please record in quiet background.

LCD set

From 2

Sec

onds to 30 seconds

Simpl

e Chinese, English, Trad Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Dutch,

Off time

: set self

-

power off time when the player is stopped and no button is

Memory info.

Check the memory size and the remaining memory

Firmware

Display the player’s firmware version

Firmware

Firmware can be upgraded via connection to PC

Exit Exit from the sub

-

menu

- Please do not talk before recording and start recording in 5~ 6 seconds.

- Make sure battery power and memory are sufficient.

- The player support 99 voice recording files storage in each directory. If the screen
displays “out of space”, which indicates the current directory has already saved 99 voice
recording files, the user need to change to a new directory.

- During recording, only front [ ] Button and [ ] button can be effective.

- To playback the recorded file, go to Music mode and choose the file : Rec0XX.Wav

8. FM mode

Under main menu, swing [ ] or [ ] button to choose FM mode and press [ ] to confirm.
Press [ ] (play/stop) to save channel. If no channel is saved, you can look for channels by
auto or manual searching. Press [ ] again to get sub-menu as below:
Save Save currently tuned frequency;

Record Record current preset channel;

Delete delete current preset channel;

Delete All delete all saved channels;

Auto Search Auto search FM channel

Normal Band Frequencies from 87.5MHz---108MHz;

Exit exit from FM sub-menu

Auto search: Holding [ ] button or [ ] button for two seconds will tune frequency upward
or downward until a radio station is located then it stop automatically.
Manual search: swing [ ] or [ ] button to search channel upward or downward one-step
Notice: Normal band can store 20 preset channels respectively.

9. System mode

Press [ ] button or [ ] button to select [system], then press [ ] button briefly to edit.

Press [ ] to edit system time. Press [ ] button, Swing [ ] button and the digit of

System Time

Language

Power off

year will increase; swing [ ] button to edit next digit, push [ ] or [ ] button to
adjust the digit. Press [ ] to confirm the setting

Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Czech, Denmark, Polish etc. Press [ ] to confirm

pressed. The time unit is seconds. 0 means set off the function.
Sleep time: set self-power off time after last key pressed, regardless of whether the
player is active or stopped. The time unit is minutes.

version

upgrade

10. E-book mode

suspending mode

data downloading

data uploading

- Press [ ] to enter into TEXT menu, It will show as per Picture 1 on the screen.

- To read the ebook, press [ ]

- To set up or delete ebook file, press [ ], it will show as per picture 2 and picture 3 on the
screen.

- To bookmark the ebook, press key[ ]to enter to every function sets refer to picture 4.

11. USB disk function

- The player can be a large mobile storage device, supports 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB memory

- Works with OS above windows 98, plug and play to the computer

- The player supports USB bus-powered and begins to charge when connecting to PC.

- When connected to a computer, the screen will indicate three different modes while operating:

12. Encrypt disk function

User can use the software to set partitions for USB disk. One is normal disk, the other is encrypted
disk. (User can see two disk icons in computer. WINDOWS 2K need install SP4, otherwise, user
only see one disk icon and selecting [normal only] or [encrypt only] from [online mode] of [system
setting]. Encrypted disk would hide all private data, others cannot access data without password.
Notice:

- Data in encrypted disk cannot be readable in the player.

- It is necessary for encrypted disk to input user name and password when connecting to
computer.

- Setting partitions will erase data, please backup data in advance. Combining disks would
also erase data.

- Please do not lose username and password. Otherwise, you cannot access encrypted disk.
You can combine disks to cancel encrypted disk at risk of damaging data in encrypted one.

13. Upgrading

Use update tool installed in your computer to update and repair the damaged firmware.

- Connect player to the computer

- Run the software: Start----program-----MP3 Player Utilities ------ MP3 Player Upgrade
Tool, click [choose new version firmware] button.

- Select the new firmware driver (from the www.LaserCo.net). Click [start] button to begin
upgrading.

- When upgrading is successful, the display will indicate successfully upgraded

- Find the icon of removable disk in [my computer]. Click the right button of mouse to select
[format]. In formatting interface, select FAT system in [file system], then click [start]
button to format disk. Notice: formatting disk would erase all the data and please backup
data before formatting.

14. Troubleshooting

If the player couldn’t play properly, please use trouble-shooting guide to help you.

Symptom Solution

The player cannot work

The player cannot upload
/download files; no disk icon in My
Computer

The player cannot record

1. Please check the battery level

2. Make sure the power button is on

3. Please check if volume is set to “0”
or not and make sure that earphones
are connected properly.

4. Damaged music data will make
noise in some extent; make sure
there are files in the player.

5. choose right FAT file system in
dialogue when formatting disk.

Please check USB cable is correctly
connected.
Please try connect to another USB
port

Please check if memory is sufficient.
Please check the battery level.

Strange characters are displayed

Readjust the position between

X64 pixel

Please check if the correct language
is selected.

FM radio signal is not clear

player and earphone; earphone can
be used as antenna to receive the
signal

More updated FAQ is available from www.LaserCo.net

15.Specification

Item Specification

Dual color LCD screen 128

Simplified Chinese, English, traditional

Operating language

Chinese, Japanese, French, German,
Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish
etc.

USB Interface

File formats supported

USB2.0

Music：MP1、MP2、MP3、WMA、WAV
Record ：WAV

FM frequency

87．5MHz—108MHz

The max output power (L) 10mW+(R) 10mW (320hm)

Built-in memory 1GB~8GB

Power 3.7 V Li-polymer battery

Operating temperature

Operating System

-5～40

WINSE/ME/2K/XP,Mac OS 10
Linux2.4.2

、

Accessories User Manual, Earphone,

15. Support Micro-SD card function

Plug and pull Micro-SD Card：

• Plug：Connect Micro-SD Card to the device by inserting the card at its observe side to the
socket of device, thus the MP4 player can play the files in the Micro-SD Card.

• Pull: Push Micro-SD Card, thus Micro-SD Card will rebound a little. Then it’s available to

take it out.